Numetrics Management Systems Inc, the leading provider of top-down
project planning and schedule risk analysis tools to the semiconductor
industry, today announced a 3-year, multi-million Euro agreement with
NXP Semiconductors to license Numetrics’
NMX-ERP™ software suite and professional
services. This agreement follows NXP’s highly
successful year-long evaluation of Numetrics products and services.
“Numetrics tools give us an objective
assessment of schedule accuracy and staffing levels on our active
projects every quarter, together with an industry benchmark of our
product development and planning performance,”
said Rene Penning de Vries, NXP’s Chief
Technology Officer. “We value our long
partnership with Numetrics which has resulted in an extensive and mature
design performance database which NXP applies extensively to project
planning processes. This enables NXP to close the loop between actual
and planned project development performance and provides us with very
high confidence in achieving On-Time delivery, First-Time-Right, for our
customers. Fact-based project planning enabled by Numetrics is now
consistently embedded in our project management process and is applied
to over 100 projects at any given time across all our sites.”
The multi-year licensing agreement covers six key products:
1) IC Project Planner(TM) -- uses Numetrics' project plan synthesis
technology to estimate project staffing levels needed to meet target
cycle time goals and enables "what-if" project plan simulation
2) IC Risk Analyzer(TM) -- quantifies schedule risk by benchmarking
the underlying assumptions in the project plan, such as development
team performance and throughput, against both industry norms and the
particular development group's past performance
3) IC Design Complexity Calculation Engine(TM)(embedded in IC
Project Planner) -- uses Numetrics' patented technology for
calculating industry norm project development effort based on the
target chip's technical characteristics
4) MultiProject Pipeliner(TM) -- enables managers to analyze
staffing requirements for the entire IC development pipeline and
determine periods in time when over-subscription will occur
5) IC Industry Database -- the centerpiece for benchmarking project
plan assumptions, completed projects and projects in development,
against industry norms for key metrics such as productivity,
throughput, cycle time, schedule slip and spin count
6) NMX Insight (TM) -- improves productivity and cycle time by
diagnosing bottlenecks in the development cycle.
“Numetrics’
unique, quantitative approach to schedule risk measurement gives our
customers a powerful tool for early identification of unrealistic
targets, reducing schedule slip and increasing both revenue and
profitability,” said Ron Collett, president
and CEO of Numetrics. “NXP’s
decision to broadly deploy our technology is another demonstration of
the company’s strategy to gain market
leadership through operational excellence.”
About NXP Semiconductors
NXP is a top 10 semiconductor company founded by Philips more than 50
years ago. Headquartered in Europe, the company has 37,000 employees
working in more than 20 countries and posted sales of EUR 5 billion in
2006. NXP creates semiconductors, system solutions and software that
deliver better sensory experiences in mobile phones, personal media
players, TVs, set-top boxes, identification applications, cars and a
wide range of other electronic devices. News from NXP is located at www.nxp.com.
About Numetrics Management Systems, Inc.
Numetrics provides a unique suite of enterprise resource planning (ERP)
software to semiconductor companies that enables unprecedented
predictability of development schedules, reliably measures project
schedule risk, and benchmarks development performance against the
industry’s best-in-class. In use by six of
the top ten semiconductor companies, the solution leverages Numetrics’
patented IC design complexity calculation engine, which is calibrated
with statistical data from more than 1,200 benchmarked chip projects
compiled from nearly 40 semiconductor companies. The Numetrics’
NMX-ERP™ solution enables superior project
schedule estimation, risk analysis, resource planning, execution
pipeline analysis and benchmarking. The company is headquartered at
Cupertino, CA.
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